Long-term exposure to antibiotics from agricultural run off may encourage the evolution of soil bacteria that break down and consume the antibacterial agents.
Long-term exposure to antibiotics from agricultural run off may encourage the evolution of soil bacteria that break down and consume the antibacterial agents.
The poxvirus stockpiles genes when it needs to adapt.
In the largest microbial eukaryote genetic sequencing effort ever attempted, researchers are investigating the transcriptomes of 700 marine algae species.
Researchers uncover a diverse microbial community living beneath 27 meters of ice in Antarctica’s Lake Vida.
A new study reveals a large mix of microbes in most human belly buttons.
The malaria vaccine under development by GSK and the PATH initiative only protects about one in three babies, though some researchers say those odds are better than nothing.
Only two weeks left to participate in The Scientist’s 2013 survey for best place to work in the life sciences.
A third dose of the MMR vaccine given during an intense outbreak appears to have provided herd-immunity to control the spread of the disease.
Successive awakening of soil microbes drives a huge pulse of CO2 following the first rain after a dry summer.
Researcher salaries continue to buck the trend of the millennium’s first decade, remaining flat or even declining across most life science disciplines.